<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Stefan Daystrom:
One good way to add to Northwest miles gradually is to look into the World Perks Mall at their website. Basically, if you go to a number of well-known websites (inlcuding barnesandnoble.com, timelife.com, jcpenneys.com, etc) through links at the World Perks mall when you're ready to buy something from one of those sites, then you earn Northwest miles on those purchases (in addition to any miles you earn anywhere else by whatever credit card you use), and it doesn't cost you any more than if you went directly to those websites. (I'm not saying you need to do all your shopping there, just remember if/when you DO get around to thinking of buying something from one of those websites to link to it from World Perks Mall.)

You might want to look around the websites for the airlines where you do face expiration issues and see if there are any similar shopping links where you earn miles at stores you wouldn't mind shopping at anyway even if you didn't earn miles.</font>